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in very fair condition, only a portion of one of the antennae and just 

 a morceau of one of the fore wings spoiling an otherwise perfect speci- 

 men. — W. Jarvis; 22, Leicester Koad, Lewes, October 29th, 1906. 



Deiopeia pulchella, Deilephila livornica, Laphygma exigua, &c., 

 IN West Cornwall. — I took a beautiful specimen of D. pulchella in 

 my garden on October 3rd last, about 1.45 p.m. My little daughter 

 first noticed it at rest on a strawberry plant ; it was easily disturbed, 

 and attempted to fly away, but the costal nervure of the left upper 

 wing was broken, so that its flight was short, and it was easily boxed. 

 The day was close and warm, with occasional sunshine — direction of 

 wind N.W. by W., but scarcely perceptible; there was a westerly gale 

 of wind and rain the day before, and two days previously a southerly 

 gale of wind and rain. Of Polia xanthomista I took twenty-eight 

 specimens this year (and twenty-seven specimens last year), and have 

 this year succeeded in obtaining a considerable number of ova. D. 

 livornica was taken on June 8th inside a kitchen window, and is a 

 fairly good specimen. Of Enpithecia constrictata I bred three imagines, 

 June 11th to 19th, from larvje obtained last year in August by search- 

 ing wild thyme at night by the aid of a lantern. Of L. exigua I took 

 a single specimen at sugar last month. Epunda lichenea, a single 

 specimen on a gas-lamp on September 26th ; and Nola confusalis, on 

 June 8th, at rest on palings. — W. A. Eollason ; Lamorna, Truro, 

 Cornwall, October 23rd, 1906, 



Melanthia albicillata : a Correction. — I very much regret that 

 through a clerical error Melanthia albicillata [ante, p. 258) was given as 

 double-brooded; this should have been Larentia viridaria. — H. D. 

 Kenyon ; Lamorna Villas, Mount Charles, St. Austell, Nov. 18th. 



SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — Wednesday, October \lth, 

 1906. —Mr. F. Merrifield, President, in the chair. — Mr. H. St. J. 

 Donisthorpe showed living examples of the beetle Mono7ii/chns pseud- 

 acori, and seed-capsules of Iris fcetidisswia, which contained more 

 specimens, found at Niton, Isle of Wight, where the species occurred 

 commonly. — Mr. A. H. Jones exhibited specimens of Pieris napi var. 

 bryonia, Argynnis thore, Erebia glacialis ab. pluto, a small form of 

 LyccBua arion from Arosa, Switzerland, at 6000 ft. ; a variety of 

 Melanaryia galatea, in which the dark patch on the under side of the 

 hind wings was much enlarged ; and two varieties of Argynnis niobe 

 (female), one very pale, the other of a bluish copper colour, taken on 

 the Splugen Pass in July last ; also specimens from other localities for 

 comparison. — Mr. W. J. Kaye exhibited a fine example of the remark- 

 able moth, Dracenta rusimi, Druce, from Trinidad. The species bears 

 a wonderful resemblance to a decayed dead leaf, the patches on the 

 wings suggesting the work of some leaf-mining insect. — Mr. E. M. 

 Dadd showed a number of Noctuids common to the British Isles and 

 Germany, and, remarking on the insular racial characters of some 

 British Lepidoptera as compared with the predominant form occurring 



